Air-Dry Clay Nativities

part of Ann's Nativity

We worked on our air-dry clay nativities for two weeks, Dec. 12th and Dec. 19th. 

December 12th Meeting

We missed having Grandma Lee Ann, Becky, Cayla, and Colter with us for our meeting today. We started our clay nativity sets.

Quilled Snowflakes

Ann's Snowflake

Rachel's Snowflake

December 5th Meeting

We began quilling snowflake ornaments.

No Meeting on November 28th

We were all busy recovering from Thanksgiving. We did not have a meeting.

November 21st Meeting

For today's meeting we worked on finishing the Halloween cats and any other projects that we have not yet finished.

One Bowl Oatmeal Muffins

The recipe we made comes from this blog http://www.simplebites.net/how-to-make-the-best-muffins/. They are yummy and fun to make because you can choose what flavors you want to use. Kaylee and Ann tried using less butter than it called for but decided the extra butter is worth it. Without it the muffins are not as moist.   They were still good but from now on they will follow the recipe.

Kaylee measures the ingredients

Lincoln tells Kaylee how to fill the muffin tins

Acrostic Poems

Thanksgiving Dinner
by Ann

Turkey
Ham
Asparagus
New potatoes
Kale
Stuffing
Green Beans
Ice cream on apple pie
Veggie try
In the oven yams
Need more cranberry sauce
Gravy

Deviled eggs
Ice berg lettuce with dressing
No space on my plate
Never enough pumpkin pie
Eggnog
Really yummy!


Love
By Kaylee

Leaning and depending
Others
Very simple to do
Ever flowing beyond

Thanks

By Cayla

 

Thankful

Helpful

Autumn

Nice things

Kindness

Smiles

 

Thanksgiving

By Becky

 

Thanksgiving dinner

Happy Family

All together

Nice house

Kids

Smiles

Giving hugs

Invitations

Voices singing

Incredibly full

Nibbling on food

Great day!

Thankful For...
By Rachel

Time spent with family
Home
Animals
Notes of music
Kind people
Family
Umbrellas when it's raining
Love

November 14th Meeting

In our meeting today we missed having Grandma Lee Ann with us. We started making muffins and wrote some acrostic poems. It was fun to hear what everyone came up with. Please publish your finished poems on the blog.  Our assignment - Write an acrostic poem about a family member using their name. It would be a great addition to your family history book.

Drawstring Bags

Kaylee sewing her bag

Kaylee's finished bag

November 7th Meeting

Today at our meeting we missed having Rachel and Cayla with us. We spent the meeting sewing drawstring bags and were almost able to finish them. There was no assignment given but please work on getting previous assignments completed and published on the blog.

Halloween Cat

This is the cute little craft we made in 4-H today.


Ann and Kaylee's 

 



Cayla

Court

Colter

Cayla's, Colter's, and Court's cats

Rachel's, Nathan's, Matthew's, Eric's, and Krystal's cats

Rachel with her cute little cat.

 

October 24th Meeting

Today we missed having Rachel and Nathan with us. We had a fun craft to make. A cute little Halloween cat decoration. The assignments for this week are to finish up everything we have worked on. There will be no meeting on the 31st because of Halloween. Have fun trick-or-treating!

Epitaphs

Here lies Roy

Hit by a toy

the toy was sharp

but he screamed like a harp

by Kaylee

Here lies Ann

Hit by a frying pan

A smack to the head

and then she was dead

by Ann

Here lies Ted.
He fell out of bed.
He bumped his head.
Now he's dead.
by Rachel
 

Halloween Cake Decorating

Our theme for this month's cake decorating project was Halloween. It was fun to decorate our cakes.

Kaylee has her frosting on

Kaylee organizes the candy into a design

Kaylee working on her cake

Kaylee's finished cake design. A pumpkin, a skeleton coming
out of the ground, a cat, a tree, a bat, and a moon.
Ann made the witch
 

Nathan, Rachel, and Matthew decorating their cupcakes

Rachel with her cupcakes



Nathan with his cupcakes

Matthew and Julia with their cupcakes

 

All the finished cupcakes at the Wilkins' home



 

Court with his cupcakes

Colter's cupcakes  top row, Becky's cupcakes middle row, Grandma's bottom row

Cayla's haunted hallow cupcake

Cayla's vampire pumpkin

Cayla's spider on a mountain

 Cayla with her cupcakes

October 17th Meeting

Today in 4-H we missed Cayla because she was out of town. We got to share in Rachel's special day, her birthday. We worked on our cake decorating with candies. We were going to start our epitaphs but ran out of time. We have the email to teach us how to do them. Everyone work on coming up with one this week. Also if you haven't finished the other things we were assigned get them done. We still need the color of the season poems, the photography, and the genealogy binder (certificates, timeline, and photos).

Pumpkin Pretzels

Fun and Easy Pumpkin Pretzels (from a Stater Brothers advertisement)

• 1 bag mini pretzels
• 1 bag M&M's candy
• orange food coloring
• 1 bag white chocolate chips
• 1 tbsp. shortening (to thin out chocolate)

Put chocolate and shortening into a microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high 1 minute at a time, stirring slowly between. Once melted, add food coloring and stir gently until smooth.
Dunk pretzels into chocolate, completely coating, and place on wax paper. Before chocolate hardens, take one green M&M and set it in the crook of the pretzel, on it's side. Let cool & enjoy!

Kaylee dips the pretzel in chocolate

Lincoln enjoys eating the M&M's that won't be used for the pumpkins

Kaylee's pumpkins

Ann's pumpkins

Kaylee adds scary faces

Kaylee's

Kaylee's

Kaylee's

Cayla and Court dipping pretzels

Our finished pretzels at the Ricks' home

Cayla enjoying the pretzels

Colter enjoying the pretzels

Matthew, Nathan, and Rachel dipping pretzels

The pretzels were fun to make and fun to eat!

Our finished pretzels at the Wilkins' home



Pumpkin Coin Toss Game

The Pumpkin Coin Toss Game is easy and fun to make and play. All you need is some bottle caps or lids, orange and black construction paper, scissors, double sided tape or glue. Cut orange circles out to fit the lids. Decorate them like pumpkins, glue them on the lids. Cut out smaller black circles to fit inside the lids and glue them in. Now you are ready to play. Roll your pumpkins, you get a point for each pumpkin side. No points for the black side. Pass them to the next player until every one has gone 5 times. Then add up all the points. The player with the most points wins!

 

Kaylee giving a silly face

Kaylee cutting out her pumpkin

Kaylee's finished pumpkin game

Grandma with her game

Colter working on his game

Colter's finished pumpkin game

Grandma's finished pumpkin game

Rachel and Nathan making their pumpkin game

Rachel's pumpkins are on the top row.
Nathan's pumpkins are on the bottom row.